POLL: Mary J. Blige in the '90s

My Life is the only one I have and it's pretty great so I'm voting for that, but I feel like if I had 411 I'd probably prefer it.

To be honest, the live album is better than the studio recordings (which are and continue to be spotty).

I thought about including the live album, but I'd never heard it and it seemed superfluous in this context...but maybe not?

Share My World is my personal favorite.

and Alfred stop posting about Mary you are always rong.

you're the same one who said she has "no classic albums" or some bullshit like that rite? lol

She doesn't! She has lots of classic songs though.

I remember the time a coworker informed me that "only white people like the live album." Never did elaborate, though.

That seems like a pretty unambiguous statement!

haha who said it was ambiguous?

Inference, mostly.

(btw I am not having yet another semantic argument on the internets)

Mary is really good.

Sorry, I meant to put Drudge sirens with that post.

boring albums are the most boring.

^^^^ a statement it is impossible to argue against

Music challops are the challop challops.

Yeah I totally would've voted for The Tour which still ain't perfect but is better than any of these. That said, Share My World is the most consistent of the 1990s ones. And Soto's right - she's yet to make a great album back to front. Not that it matters really with so much great stuff available to make your own perfect MJB long player. Still, Mary, how 'bout a 40-minute album (!) that absolutely slays next time out (e.g. The Way I See It)?

Cuz it WOULD slay. Think about how more awesome Growing Pains would have been had it ended a few tracks earlier.

Actually, with the last two albums she's come closest to excellence.

I still think Mary is the best of her albums when it comes to being "album-y." Reminds me of early '70s Stax.

I'll never forgive her for the Dianne Warren track on that one.

I'd say Growing Pains is her most consistent overall.

I'd say Growing Pains is her most consistent overall.

lmao.

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'my life' >>>>> your lives

My Life is the only one I have and it's pretty great so I'm voting for that, but I feel like if I had 411 I'd probably prefer it.

― some dude, Thursday, September 3, 2009 11:27 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

surprisingly i thought it would be that way for me but ... no. 'my life' is actually way better even if i like the 'real love' single more than anything else she did

I still need to hear Share My World.

imo only a heart of stone wouldn't have had to beat back an instant gleeful impulse for 411 - so many classic jams represented there (sprawled admittedly over 411, 411 remix, the odd 12, and time itself) but not necessarily a great listen-thru album the way it is a great cd or the seminal record of the 90s that it most probably is. and share my world is frequently excellent too, but all the same somehow never quite cumulates in that sense of magnificent abyssal totality that my life ends up leaving you with.

oftentimes i tend to find myself imagining chucky thompson having had this huge crush on mary while he was making this album, is that weird? the utterly silent, sadly noble kind where he'd know putting an arm around her shoulder would only ever be an awkward, inadequate kind of gesture.

That's a vivid impression.

if anyone fancies it that could also kind of have worked as a alternate universe ghost of christmas future for richcraft and amerie, if they'd stayed together forever.

boring albums are the most boring.

― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

even though it was as usual only for the benefit of the delighted flute-clinking dinner party audience in soto's head this still kinda makes me laugh - just cos i wouldnt necessarily be mad at someone claiming my life was boring; it is sort of torpid in a profound way, i dunno.

can't front like 411 has the monopoly on dope remixes either!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_F3YZCVXdg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHFgw37eFDU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRrSrn9ABWY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-J8Q9tP4E

(last one's the same beat but just s&w's "i shine, you shine, shine" on the intro is perfection)

there's a DJ on the radio here that plays the wessunalized "i love you" at least twice a week, never get tired of it

i propose we now take this moment of bad boy bathos to at last allow ourselves to bump this without shame, who's with me

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6117810199f80784/

haha i couldn't place the song title (funny how 3 months fly by!) and so i was just kind of absent-mindedly bumping that and expecting Mary or some 90s girl group to come in after the Puffy verse and then noooo! CASSIEROLLED!

She's headlining the Michael Jackson tribute concert in Vienna.

Brainwasher, you're right about Mary. Look for flowers in the mail.

even though it was as usual only for the benefit of the delighted flute-clinking dinner party audience in soto's head this still kinda makes me laugh - just cos i wouldnt necessarily be mad at someone claiming my life was boring; it is sort of torpid in a profound way, i dunno.

― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 5:43 PM Bookmark

classic rtc post. still one of the funniest zings in the history of ilx.

eh, he's done better

not only did i lol @ that, i walked into another room to do something and starting loling all over again.

xp your view is obv not going to be impartial

Naw. Never minded a good zing.

RIP dc raised producer Chucky Thompson at 53 from Covid complications. Also produced Chuck Brown and many others